Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Hilltop enclosure
Kilmocolmock, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmocolmock
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.39199, -8.01783
- SMR number
- RO052-022----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
On a hillock in an undulating landscape. Subcircular, grass and scrub-covered area (dims c. 50m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a scarp (H 0.6-1m), which survives NW-E-SE. This is separated by a berm (at S: Wth 20m) or the natural slope of the hill (Wth 20m; H 1.6m) at E from a second bank (at SE: Wth 4.5m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 2.2m) which survives SE-S and an outer stone-faced and overgrown fosse (Wth of base 3.5m; ext. D 0.5-1.4m) SE-S. The bank inside the fosse is reduced to a scarp (at E: H 1.6m) E-SE and is replaced by a drystone revetment wall (H 1-1.2m) N-E. There is a third outer bank (Wth 2.8-3.2m; ext. H 0.3-0.6m) SE-S, but there is no recognisable entrance through any bank. The hill has been cut-back S-W-N and the two outer banks do not survive here (present max. ext. dims 96m N-S; c. 80m E-W).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.